Wars, Rumors of Wars, and Donald J. Trump

 

June 2025: THE DEDICATED BLOGGER has been forced to accept the bitter truth. Keeping up with Donald Trump (a.k.a. “Donald Dumpling”) during his second term has been a herculean task. This has much to do with the fact that anyone with scruples is gone from the White House, under Trump 47. 

Only the soulless and the sycophants remain – some of Trump’s most loyal aides being one and the same. 

November 1, 1952: The United States explodes the first hydrogen bomb.

 

Once again, we will default to the HOT/NOT HOT format to bring what order out of chaos we may.

 

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A chronology of Iran and other nuclear nations. 

THERMONUCLEAR HOT – Bombs and missiles: First, Israel attacks Iran, claiming the Iranians are weeks or days away from having enough enriched uranium to produce their own atomic bomb. Iranian defenses are quickly crippled; but they strike back at targets in Tel Aviv and across the tiny Jewish nation. 

Here, it might be wise to remind ourselves that Bibi Netanyahu has long been warning everyone that Iran is just minutes – days – weeks – months – years – from getting a nuclear weapon: 

1992: He claims Iran is “three to five years” away from having the bomb. 

1995: Iran is “three to five years” away, he says, again. 

1996: Iran, says Bibi, is “extremely close” to having nukes, and “catastrophic consequences” will result, if the Iranians achieve their goal. 

(The U.S. government believes Israel has possessed nuclear weapons for fifty years.) 

 

1998: In related news, Pakistan explodes its first nuclear weapon – to offset what it sees as a threat from India.

(India explodes its first atomic bomb in 1974).

 

2003: President George W. Bush warns the world that Iraq is in possession of weapons of mass destruction, and that claim is used to justify a U.S. invasion. No such weapons are ever found. 

(We all remember how that worked out.)

 

2006: In an interview with Glenn Beck, Netanyahu tells listeners that Iran is like Germany under Hitler. Or like David Koresh, the cult leader who died with dozens of his followers at Waco, Texas. The Iranians, he says, want “to obliterate America,” want “to obliterate America’s allies,” want “to take over the world’s oil supply.” He warns that the Iranians want nuclear weapons “with which they can dominate the world.” 

At the time, the U.S. government is cutting back its stockpile of nuclear weapons but still has 7,853. 

(It would seem unlikely that Iran could ever “dominate the world.”)

 

2006: North Korea tests its first nuclear weapon. 

2012: Netanyahu cries wolf again, insisting that Iran is just “a few months away” from having its own weapons of mass destruction. 

2015: President Obama agrees to a deal with Iran to halt enrichment of uranium to levels necessary to make an atomic weapon. Netanyahu claims this has “opened a pathway to the bomb.” 

(Did we mention that Iran was “a few months away,” three years ago?)

 

2017: Obama leaves office. Iran still has no bomb. Trump takes over. North Korea keeps firing missiles to prove that it could hit the continental United States, if it wanted. Donald promises “fire and fury like the world has never seen” if the North keeps threatening the U.S. with attack.

 

May 2018: President Trump withdraws from the deal with Iran. “The Iran Deal,” he grumbles “was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into.” 

(He promises to work out a better deal!)

 

June 2018: Mr. Trump meets with Kim Jong-un, the homicidal North Korea leader. The president claims the meeting went great. In an interview with Greta Von Susteren, he gushes in describing Kim: “He’s got a great personality. He’s a funny guy, he’s very smart, he’s a great negotiator. He loves his people, not that I’m surprised by that. I think that we have the start of an amazing deal. We’re going to denuke North Korea.” 

September 2018: Trump says he and Kim “fell in love” and North Korea is going to hand over all its nukes. 

February 2019: Mr. Trump claims that he has worked out a deal with North Korea – and he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

January 2020: Standing beside Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump reveals his Middle East Peace Plan, which he calls “the deal of the century.” 

(It’s a Neville Chamberlain “peace for our time” kind of moment.)

 

September 2020: Trump, Netanyahu, and the leaders of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, sit down to sign the Abraham Accords. “We’re here this afternoon to change the course of history,” Donald says. “After decades of division and conflict, we mark the dawn of a new Middle East.” 

“Thanks to the great courage of the leaders of these three countries, we take a major stride toward a future in which people of all faiths and backgrounds live together in peace and prosperity,” the president insists. The accords “will serve as the foundation for a comprehensive peace across the entire region.” 

(Trump presents the Israeli leader with a golden key to the White House.)

 

2021: Donald leaves office (albeit not without first helping stir up a devastating attack on democracy). 

(The Palestinians never sign the Abraham Accords.) 

(Trump never gets a deal done with Iran.) 

(North Korea never surrenders a single nuke.) 

(Trump never does win a Nobel.) 

 

January 20, 2021: President Biden takes office. Four years later, when he leaves the White House, Iran still has no nuclear weapons.

 

2023: Hamas launches a surprise attack on Israel, killing 1,195. Israel responds by pulverizing the Gaza Strip, killing an estimated 57,000 Palestinians. 

2024: Candidate Trump runs for a second term on the promise to keep the U.S. out of any Middle East wars.

 

January 20, 2025: In his Inaugural Address, Trump announces, “We will measure our success not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end – and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.” 

 

FUN FACTS: 

The first atomic bomb, dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killed 78,000 Japanese. That bomb had an explosive power estimated to be 15 kilotons (a kiloton being equivalent to 1,000 tons of TNT.) 

The second atomic bomb fell on Nagasaki on August 9, and another estimated 60,000 to 80,000 people were killed.

Two badly burned survivors of the attack on Hiroshima.

 

Modern hydrogen bombs have an explosive power measured in megatons – that is 1,000,000 tons of TNT. 

No nation, in the last eighty years, has deployed an atomic bomb – for painfully obvious reasons. 

It is estimated that at the very moment Donald delivered his second Inaugural Address, the nine nuclear powers possessed more than 12,000 atomic weapons.

 

The United States and Russia both have more than 5,000 nuclear weapons. China is in third place with 600. France had 290, the United Kingdom has 225, India has 180, Pakistan has 170, and North Korea has 50. 

It is estimated that Israel possesses 90 nuclear weapons, with at least 50 designed to be delivered by land-based Jericho missiles. 

Five other members of NATO are believed to be “hosting” nuclear weapons, which is kind of wild. 

Both Russia and the United States possess additional “tactical nuclear weapons” for battlefield uses. Some are estimated to have an explosive power as high as 300 kilotons – which is kind of nutty, if you think it over. 

A single atomic bomb exploded over New York City (it is better to explode bombs above a city and not let the ground absorb any of the power of the blast) would kill an estimated 583,160 people. 

Even if an atomic blast didn’t kill you, the electromagnetic pulse created would fry your car’s computers; and you and millions of others would be hoofing it to work every day. 

According to one estimate: 

A 1.4 Megaton bomb launched about 250 miles above Kansas would destroy most of the electronics that were not protected in the entire Continental United States. During the brief return to atmospheric testing in 1962, a 1.4 megaton nuclear weapon was detonated over Johnston Island at an altitude of about 250 miles. The effects of EMP were observed in Hawaii, 800 miles east of the detonation. Streetlights and fuses failed on Oahu and telephone service was disrupted on the Island of Kauai.

 

Scientists believe that an all-out nuclear war would lead to a “nuclear winter,” as all the smoke, and dust of what used to be cities, and the ashes of untold numbers of human beings, animals, insects, trees and plants filled the sky, severely reducing the amount of light that reached the Earth’s surface.

Russia could, if it desired, hit every town and city in the United States, with a population of more than 5,000, and still have several hundred atomic weapons left over, maybe to strike Disney World.

 

BLOGGER’S NOTE: The humble gentleman who resides in Glendale, Ohio would not normally fault a U.S. president for whatever other nations do – since a president is often no more than a powerful spectator, when it comes to what other nations do.

 

Yet, Trump, himself, has always been quick to blame his predecessors, while oddly unwilling to accept even a wisp of blame if bloodshed does erupt.

 

He has said repeatedly that the war in Ukraine would not have started if he had been president in 2022. By the same logic, since this war with Iran started when his lard ass was plunked down in the Oval Office, by Trumpian logic, he merits blame.

 

When I work on this post, on June 23, A grand total of 230 days had passed since Donald was elected on November 5, 2024, at which time he promised to end the fighting in Ukraine in one day.

100 MILLION DEGREES HOT: And that’s Celsius. According to Fox News, President Trump (when not busy golfing) had been considering using a nuclear bomb to take out Iran’s nuclear facility at Fordo, buried deep underground. But don’t worry. It would only be a “tactical nuclear weapon.” 

If Donald had the urge.

NOT HOT – Working: President Trump bags his job early Friday afternoon, June 20, and heads for his private club at Bedminster, New Jersey. 

Where he is expected to spend his time…playing more golf. 

(Donald gives the go-ahead for a strike on Iran the next day.)

June 13, 2018: Trump Works Art of the Deal "Magic" with North Korea!

 

6/13/18: The president returns home from his historic meeting with Kim Jong-un. As anyone could have predicted, he proclaims his trip a total success. You can pretty much close the voting for the Nobel Peace Prize. President Twitter Thumbs offers us this historic announcement at 4:56 a.m.: 

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“There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.” 

President Trump

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Just landed - a long trip, but everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office. There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea. Meeting with Kim Jong Un was an interesting and very positive experience. North Korea has great potential for the future!

 

Next, he blasts the free press for not crediting his success. Naturally, he does his blasting in a tweet: 

So funny to watch the Fake News, especially NBC and CNN. They are fighting hard to downplay the deal with North Korea. 500 days ago they would have “begged” for this deal – looked like war would break out. Our Country’s biggest enemy is the Fake News [emphasis added here and below] so easily promulgated by fools! 

 

Fawning propaganda from Fox News. 

As you could also guess, Fox News picks up the story and misses the salient point. Fox opens with exactly the kind of quality reporting we’ve come to expect. That is to say, fawning propaganda: 

Having apparently defanged the nuclear threat posed by North Korea, President Trump on Wednesday identified the biggest remaining threat to the Republic: The “fake news media.”

 

Trump, just back in Washington after his historic sitdown in Singapore with Kim Jong Un, blasted the press – and two TV news organizations in particular – for failing to grasp the enormity of the event. 

 

Yes, those poor dopes at CNN and NBC! They’re too blinded by bias to “grasp the enormity” of what Donald the Great has done! 

First, let’s say this: Kim Jong-un is a far bigger threat to this country than the “Fake News” folks. 

Unless Wolf Blitzer is threatening to nuke an American city, and I missed the story. 

Secondly, none of us – and not all of the talking heads on cable news combined – can know where the path President Trump and Kim Jong-un appear to be taking ends. It may end with total denuclearization. It may end in renewed threats and possibility of war. Even the president cannot be sure. He admitted as much. Kim has sent signals that he may be willing to move toward total denuclearization; but so far not one North Korean grenade has been surrendered, let alone a stockpile of nukes. Kim may give up his missile program in the future. Kim may stop adding to his stockpile. Kim may turn over the nuclear weapons he already has. Kim may allow inspectors into his country to verify all these steps. And Mr. Kim may renege. 

 

“I may be wrong…I don’t know that I’ll ever admit that.” 

“Honestly, I think he’s going to do these things,” Trump says during a press conference before returning home. “I may be wrong; I mean, I may stand before you in six months and say, ‘Hey, I was wrong,’” “I don’t know that I’ll ever admit that,” he laughs, “but I’ll find some kind of an excuse.” 

Fox News might not want to admit it; but CNN, NBC, The New York Time and even the Wapakoneta Daily News have a duty to question the wisdom of Trump saying Kim Jong-un “loves his people.” Kim heads up one of the most repressive regimes on earth. An estimated 18 million North Koreans suffer from malnutrition, although Kim clearly eats well. The number of political prisoners stands at 120,000. That number would be higher, but Kim’s jailors have no compunction when it comes to torturing, starving to death, or executing prisoners who represent the gravest threats to the regime. 

Fox can’t get even the simplest points right. When Trump brags because he got Otto Warmbier released from the gulag, whereas Obama “failed,” Fox News lets him brag. The president brags about bringing back three other prisoners, taken during Obama’s time in office, when Obama couldn’t. Fox doesn’t note that Kim, whose police brutalized Warmbier, released him only in time to return home and die. Fox can’t even call the president out on his lies. Of the three hostages released together recently, only one was taken while Obama was in office. 

The other two were taken with Trump in charge. 

Was it good that Trump brought those hostages and poor Warmbier home? Yes, of course. But Fox won’t note that four hostages held by North Korea were freed while Obama was in office. 

That would require viewers to think.

 

NBC journalists aren’t the “greatest enemy” of this country if they ask if Trump is willing to turn his back on our nation’s best values. If the president is going to talk about Kim in the glowing fashion he has, it’s worth asking if U.S. foreign policy will be fundamentally altered. “He’s got a great personality,” Trump says of Kim in one interview. “He’s a funny guy, he’s very smart, he’s a great negotiator. He loves his people, not that I’m surprised by that. I think that we have the start of an amazing deal.” 

You don’t need to look at Kim Jong-un twice to see a brutal dictator at work. Yet Trump looks twice and sees prime real estate. “They have great beaches,” he says of North Korea, during a press conference. “You see that whenever they’re exploding their cannons into the ocean. I said, ‘Boy, look at that view. Wouldn’t that make a great condo?’ You could have the best hotels in the world right there. Think of it from a real-estate perspective.” 

Yes, I’m sure those 18 million malnourished North Korean citizens and those 120,000 political prisoners do.

 

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IF FOX NEWS had any doubt about why journalists from rival networks were skeptical of Trump’s new fondness for Kim, they had only to consider a news report from last October. Once again, journalists outlined the horrific methods favored by the psychopath currently charming Trump. 

 

Executed with flamethrowers and anti-aircraft guns 

Here’s the way a real news outlet describes Kim’s regime:  

Whether it be his penchant for heavy drinking or the horrors he inflicts on the women he keeps as sex slaves, the strongman has long held his nation in fear as he rules over the Hermit Kingdom with unchecked powers. Kim, however, seems to save his most gruesome indulgences for the way he deals with people he considers enemies, traitors or subordinates….

 

Reporters then compiled a list of favorite methods for executing those who crossed him: 

Anti-aircraft Guns – While these weapons were designed to take down enemy fighter jets, they have become a favorite method of execution for Kim. In 2015, reports surfaced from South Korean intelligence that the dictator’s Defense Minister Hyong Yong Choi was pulverized to death by an anti-aircraft gun after the young despot ordered his execution for falling asleep during an event and not carrying out instructions.

 

Hee Yeon Lim, a 26-year-old defector, recently told western media that she was part of a crowd of 10,000 ordered to watch the execution by anti-aircraft guns of 11 musicians who allegedly made a pornographic video. 

 

“What I saw that day made me sick in my stomach. They were lashed to the end of anti-aircraft guns,” she said. “A gun was fired, the noise was deafening, absolutely terrifying. And the guns were fired one after the other.”

 

She added: “The musicians just disappeared each time the guns were fired into them. Their bodies were blown to bits, totally destroyed, blood and bits flying everywhere…and then, after that, military tanks moved in and they ran over the bits on the ground where the remains lay.”

 

Mortar Fire…In 2011, a vice minister of the army was sentenced to death for allegedly drinking and partying during the official mourning period after Kim Jong Il’s death. The younger Kim apparently ordered “no trace of him left behind, down to his hair” before the vice minister was placed on a spot that had been targeted for a mortar round and “obliterated”.

 

Flamethrower – Multiple news sources reported in 2014 that, as part of Kim’s purge of high-ranking officials, O Sang Hon, the deputy public security minister, was “executed by flamethrower.”

 

...Poisoning – Seemingly too subtle of a method for Kim, who obviously prefers over-the-top theatrics when it comes to killing, the North Korean strongman isn’t above treachery…especially when it comes to family.

 

…Kim Kyong Hui – his own aunt – was allegedly poisoned to death after he grew tired of her complaints [about his killing of her husband]. And to make sure that nobody else would bother him, Kim ordered the rest of his aunt’s family – around seven members – killed.

 

By the way, who compiled that horrific list of crimes? Who made it clear that Kim might be mad? Who made it clear he might not be someone who would ever live by his word? It was Fox News, pursuing the truth for once. It was not Fox News parroting praise for Orange Leader.

June 27, 2018: The Hater-in-Chief Finds a Human Rights Case He Can Champion

 

6/27/18: After only seventeen months in office, President Trump has discovered a human rights issue that he cares to address. 

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“Greensboro lunch counter moment” for Team Trump

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You are probably asking yourself, “Well, Mr. Blogger, what issue could that be? Does the Tin Man without a heart now admit it is cruel to tear young children away from parents at the southern border?” 

No. 

“Aha!” you are thinking. “It must be that the Trump administration is going to stand up for victims of repressive regimes around the world. Good job, Mr. Trump, this has always been what America – in its finest moments – is about!” 

No. 

“Okay,” you are thinking, “perhaps Trump realizes he should have been tougher on Kim Jong-un when it came to human rights! Yes. That must be it!” The president has to have spent more time studying the horrors perpetrated by Kim’s regime. He must realize he has to do whatever he can to help the 120,000 political prisoners currently held in the North Korea gulag! And he has thought about what he said. He told reporters Kim had a “great personality,” and he was “funny,” and he “loves his people.” Now Trump is ready to admit he sounded like a fool! 

Not even close.

 

The Trump administration finally had its “Greensboro lunch counter” moment last week when the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, kicked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to the curb. She and her family did enjoy a free cheese plate before the owner bounced them out. With that, the president took a stand. If Stephanie Wilkinson, the restaurant owner, wanted to protest the policies of the Trump administration, suddenly the president realized he wanted to be counted among those who stood up in the cause of humanity. The cause of civil rights would have a mighty champion in the White House. It was time for a return to “civility,” Trump said. 

Consider the hypocrisy of this call for “civility” from Trump and his crew. They don’t care if children get locked up on the border. They don’t care if African Americans get gunned down wrongly by police. They do care if the White House Press Secretary can’t finish her glass of wine in peace.

Trump supporters defending Sarah Sanders by vilifying gays.

 

The most cursory study of Trump’s Twitter feed reveals how regularly he employs uncivil language. Hiding behind the seal of the President of the United States, he uses the “bully pulpit” to bully foes. Like all good haters, he’s a master of dehumanization. Sometimes, he vilifies entire groups. Immigrants are always criminals of some type, “murders,” “rapists” or “members of MS-13.” They want to “invade” our country. They “infest” our land. These aren’t human beings. These are bugs, worthy of being stepped on, crushed or shot. 

Trump has the vast power of the federal government behind him and like any bully, loves to punch down. His foes never disagree with him on principle. Sen. John Tester of Montana is not dishonest. He’s “sick.” Peter Strzok, the F.B.I. agent so much in the news, is in Trump’s mind a “sick loser.” Former F.B.I. Director James Comey is “very sick or very dumb.” The “Fake News” people have a “sick” agenda. President Obama was a “Bad (or sick) guy” when he tapped the phones at Trump Tower. 

No evidence of tapping was ever found. 

 

There’s a whiff of Hitler in what he tweets and says. 

The crude insults pollute Trump’s dialogue and stink up his Twitter feed. The instincts of the bully are consistently on display. Mary Kissel, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, is “a major loser.” Sometimes, Trump employs a demeaning descriptor, “Liddle,” as in “Liddle Bob Corker,” applied to a Republican senator and frequent critic. Mort Zuckerman, owner of the New York Daily News, is “little Morty,” and a “loser.” Like the meanest kid in your seventh-grade class, Trump will insult the physical appearance of others or their intellectual gifts. He called a Miss Universe contestant who gained fifteen pounds a “pig.” Reporters who don’t fawn are subject to attack. You have “really dumb” Cheri Jacobs and Don Lemon, “the dumbest man on television.” S. E. Cupp is “one of the dumber pundits on TV. Hard to watch, no talent.” In one tweet, Trump nails two critics at once, “Crazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika.”  

He probably can’t spell Mika’s last name (Brzezinski) and he’s too slothful intellectually to look it up. 

The more you examine Trump’s attacks, the more you realize how dangerous they are. When this petty bully is angry, and he’s often angry, he employs the worst kind of language to degrade foes. 

Trump isn’t just uncivil.

 

There’s a whiff of Hitler in what he tweets and says. For that reason, the reporter, Mary Kissel, gets hammered when Trump re-tweets a supporter who refers to Kissel as that “POS WSJ LIAR FANTASY PUNDIT.” Think about that. Kissel isn’t a reporter doing a job. The President of the United States isn’t interested in the First Amendment. He’s not a champion of a free press. He’s calling a critic a piece of shit. Trump’s enemies are never human. The worst dictators have all understood this drill. Reporters for Politico, Trump insists, are “pure scum.” Journalists who criticize him in any way are “basic scum” and “enemies of the American people [emphasis added here and below].” During a campaign rally on Monday the president referred to Stephen Colbert, a late-night comedian, as a “lowlife.” 

You can’t compare Trump or any other politician to Hitler until they turn on the gas. You can say Trump has the instincts. He’s a hater, as was the German psychopath. When it comes to the accused in court, not generally the most sympathetic lot, we see how low Trump is ready to go. Trump never doubts that those accused are guilty and always howls in favor of the harshest punishment. In 2013 he reacted angrily to news reports of teens randomly attacking people on the streets: “The scum that gets high on badly hurting old ladies and others through knockout assaults wouldn’t feel that way with a gun at their head!” But we’ve seen too much evidence that the “scum” on the streets often turn out to be innocent young African American men who get gunned down by police and armed citizens too quick to shoot.

 

When it comes to those accused of crimes, Trump carries dehumanization to an extreme. “Did you hear they caught those animals who killed that lawyer in the mall parking lot? That is great news!” he tweeted in 2013. 

Animals, scum, lowlifes. It’s the language of hate. Nazi leaders referred to Jews as “vermin,” and by dehumanizing them, helped make the unthinkable thinkable. In 1942 the governor of Idaho called Japanese Americans – all of them – “rats.” That type of rhetoric allowed the U.S. government to get away with detaining 110,000 human beings, including 77,000 U.S. citizens, because their humanity had been obscured. 

Trump is always ready to play up the hate. Knowing many of his supporters are offended by Black Lives Matter, Candidate Trump, and later President Trump made no effort to bridge the gap. He knows that more than a few members of his base have hoods and sheets. Trump appealed to the worst that was in their hearts. “How come there are no protests in favor of the two young police officers gunned down in Mississippi by two deranged animals,” he asked during his campaign. 

What did Candidate Trump demand? “DEATH PENALTY!” he shouted on Twitter, in all caps. 

The problem with referring to criminals as animals, isn’t just that it makes inhuman behavior toward them acceptable. 

The second issue is that not all “criminals” are guilty. 

You don’t want to rush to execute an innocent human being. (See: 3/27/18, 6/2/18 and 4/20/19.)

July 9, 2018: What! You Mean North Korea Didn't Honor a Handshake?

 

7/9/18: Diplomacy is still a bitch (see: 7/7/18). North Korea appears to be playing the Trump team for fools. 

 

Every U.S. president since 1950, except Donald J. Trump. 

Having declared last month that North Korea was no longer a threat, Trump must now explain why they won’t just hand over their nukes. Naturally, when Trump gets in a logical jam, he tries to fight his way out in a tweet: 

I have confidence that Kim Jong Un will honor the contract we signed &, even more importantly, our handshake. We agreed to the denuclearization of North Korea. China, on the other hand, may be exerting negative pressure on a deal because of our posture on Chinese Trade-Hope Not!

 

Who could have guessed? North Korea might not honor a “contract” or a “handshake!” China might act against U.S. interests! Who knew! Well, besides every U.S. president since 1950, except Donald J. Trump.

Fake out, Donald!

September 29, 2018: President Trump Tells Rally Crowd He "Fell in Love" with Kim Jong-un

 

9/29/18:  The president tells a crowd at a rally in West Virginia that he has found a new love. 

No: not another porn star. 

The object of his affection is “Little Rocket Man,” the same man Republicans once rightly call a “lunatic.” Trump wanted to share with his adoring fans how he and Kim Jong-un went about negotiating the denuclearization of North Korea. 

“I was really being tough and so was he,” Trump insisted. “And we would go back and forth. And then we fell in love, ok? No really. He wrote me beautiful letters. And they’re great letters. And then we fell in love.”

 

♥

 

According to the International Criminal Court, Kim has been guilty of 10 of the 11 “crimes against humanity” the court catalogues. Highlights include “murder, extermination, enslavement, torture, and sexual violence.” Kim’s enemies have been assassinated by anti-aircraft guns, torn to pieces by dogs and poisoned at foreign airports. Defectors claim that at just one of many “reeducation camps” and prisons, children have been starved or worked to death. (See: 6/13/18.)

January 3, 2019: Trump Brags about Avoiding War He almost Caused

 

1/3/19: The president wakes early, stretches his 6' 2" or 6' 3" frame (see: 5/2/18), wiggles his toes and ponders his busy schedule (executive playtime till 11:00 a.m. and no public events scheduled all day). Finally, he rises from bed and lumbers to the bathroom. There, he puts paste on his toothbrush and gazes fondly at his reflection in the mirror. His reflection gazes back (fondly) and both Trumps think: “We look great, great hairdo, beautiful orange tint, sexy, saggy skin.” (See: 2/2/19.) 

 

A “big, fat war in Asia.” 

Trump eats breakfast, watches Fox News, and plays around with his iPhone until playtime ends. (See: 2/3/19.) 

Unfortunately, at 11:00 top aides and cabinet members expect him to do something besides tweet. The president does have sweet letters from Kim Jong-un, the murderous despot in charge of North Korea’s repressive regime. Sources say he loves to show them to White House visitors, fanning them out on his Oval Office desk like a diplomatic straight flush for all to see. Trump has just received what he says is another “great letter” from Kim, who tells him that they should get together soon. 

XOXO. 

The president is proud, because he tells everyone that if he hadn’t been such a fantastic leader there would have been a “big, fat war in Asia.” Some lunatic had threatened the North Koreans with “fire and fury” and “destruction like no one had ever seen,” and, oh, wait, that was himself. 

Well, then, let’s see what else we can find in the news and see how the president is doing. The federal government remains in a partial shutdown on Day 13. The guy who said he’d be “proud” to own it, is now insisting the Democrats own it instead, and whoever said, no, this is going to be President Trump’s baby to burp told a foul lie. Diplomacy may be hard (to be fair it’s hard for every president – and it’s just that Trump is different because he needs to constantly brag about how great he is). But there’s always the Midas touch he brings to the art of governing – the booming job numbers – the fabulous tax cuts – and the soaring Dow-Jones. 

Curses! 

Before the day is over, the Dow sheds another 660 points, extending heavy losses from the end of last year.

 

Well, then, the tax cuts! Those are great – and they’re not going to add to the deficit, because… 

Damn! Trump took over in January 2017, insisting he could wipe out the deficit (just under $19 trillion at the time) if voters would give him eight years. Now he’s down to six left to get the job done. The U.S. Treasury Department announces that the federal deficit has ballooned to $21,974,000,000 in two years, with the “fiscally responsible” Republicans in complete control. 

Let me check my math. 

(Sound of calculator buttons being tapped.) 

Yeah, the deficit is NOT going down. 

You can check out the National Debt Clock for fun and watch the debt rise by $1 million, every 30 seconds. (Boy, I remember when Republicans used to love to watch that clock and blame every blink on President Obama.)